The ancient Egyptians invented one of the earliest known writing systems used from around 3000 BC. The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ...

Egyptian archaeologists recently found an ancient sword belonging to the military ... or hieroglyphic symbol, of Ramesses. A picture of the sword shows that the artifact has decayed over time ...

These engravings, along with symbols such as "chen," "cent," and "Benu," which relate to time and astronomy, suggest that the observatory played a crucial role in ancient Egyptian efforts to ...

ONE of the early Chinese texts on alchemy is the Ts'an T'ung Ch'i of ... This belief is found also in ancient Egypt1 and is no doubt based on the unalterable character of the noble metal.

Ancient Egypt (3300BC to 525BC) is where we first see the dawn of what, today, we call "medical care". The Egyptian civilization was the first great civilization on this planet. Egyptians thought ...

A rare full set of ancient Egyptian astrological symbols has been uncovered under 2,000 years' worth of grime in Luxor's Temple of Esna, in southern Egypt. The set is just one of three full sets ...

The Hidden Role of the Milky Way in Ancient Egyptian Mythology Apr. 10, 2024 — Astrophysicists shed light on the relationship between the Milky Way and the Egyptian sky-goddess Nut. The paper ...

The archaeologists said this month they had uncovered the weapon among a cache of ancient Egyptian treasures, dug out of the Tell Al-Abqain ancient fort around 30 miles southeast of Alexandria by ...

Examination of a mummy has revealed the original ancient Egyptian embalming recipe - first used to preserve bodies. A battery of forensic chemical tests carried out on a mummy that dated from ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the ancient remains of an Egyptian army barracks and the artifacts left there, including a still-shiny bronze sword engraved with the name of King Ramses II in ...

Soil drilled near the Giza necropolis had levels of copper far higher than what's natural. © Vincent Brown via Flickr The construction of Egypt’s famed Giza ...